Remember when Mark Zuckerberg blamed the problematic old Facebook mobile app--dubbed "freakishly slow" by some--on "betting too much on HTML 5?" So does backend-as-a-service (BAAS) provider Sencha, and to rebut Zuckerberg's assertion that using HTML5 was "one of [Facebook's] biggest mistakes," Sencha built its own mobile webapp, Fastbook, to demonstrate that HTML5 is ready for prime time.

Geo APIs are popular in today's mobile, ever-connected world. It's hard to find an oft-used app without mapping functionality of some sort. While the likes of Google Maps and other services have popular APIs, there is a visible lack of standardization in geocoding that the OGC seeks to remedy.

This allows access to data collected by the TINT cloud-based social media aggregator. TINT customers can use the API for one-stop data on the social media activity shared by the TINT platform. It can...

The Bottender API makes it easier for developers to consolidate a variety of methods into a single object such as session or event. This simplifies the development of a chatbot system on a different...